Winners of the 2023 English Essay Contest Honored at Awards Ceremony

    The winners of the 2023 English Essay Contest were awarded at the awards ceremony held on Nov. 10. The competition was divided into two categories: Non-native speakers and Native speakers from English-speaking countries and countries where English is one of the official languages. It took place in a computer lab at the College of Social Science from 1 p.m. to 6 p.m. on Oct. 8. A total of 53 international and Korean undergraduate and graduate students from universities located in Gwangju Metropolitan City and Jeollanam-do Province participated in the annual event. They wrote their essays without internet access within two hours. The essay topics by category are as follows: “Discuss strategies for student-led media to actively engage with their campus community and contribute to positive change” for the Non-native category and “Discuss whether AI-generated art can be copyrighted” for the Native category.
     The contest awards ceremony took place in a seminar room at the Press and Broadcasting Center located on the second floor of the Student Union 1 building. 14 CNU students and one GIST student were honored at the ceremony. The winners in the non-native category are as follows. The first prize — Kim Hyo-chan (Dept. of Medical Science), the second prize — Ryu Hyun-su (Dept. of Nursing, Graduate School), the third prize — Kwon Min-seong (Dept. of Pre-Medical Science) and Kim Ji-heon (Faculty of Business Administration), and the encouragement prize — Park Ka-ram (Dept. of Earth Science Education), Lee Seung-jun (Dept. of English Language and Literature), Lee Ji-myung (Dept. of Statistics), Jang Hyo-won (Dept. of Software Engineering), Horvath-Gal Hanna (Dept. of Psychology, Graduate School), and Umarov Khojiakbar (Faculty of Business Administration).
     The winners in the native category are as follows. The first prize — Wondimu Kidest Tefera (Dept. of Business Administration, Graduate School), the third prize — Fatima Uroos (Dept. of English Language and Literature) and Kehinde Teslim Ayodeji (School of Mechanical Engineering), and the encouragement prize — Jasper Madalipay (School of Earth Sciences and Environmental Engineering, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology) and Bisht Neha (School of Polymer Science and Engineering, Graduate School).